1. Knowledge through consensus is a mine of gold
How then can it be acquired or bought?

2. The author's collected works were lost
So let the seeker of this great pursuit weep

3. And the religion has become darker in the eyes of its men
After losing its lamp and it has set

4. And every limb has a wound upon it
And every heart among them a cracked cleft

5. Alas we say he passed away swiftly accepting
So passionate was he and oh the exhaustion

6. Sorrows are renewed in him constantly
Forever especially the fervor and melting

7. And from the clouds of affairs pours roiling
A downpour that inundates the overflowing

8. Due to a tragedy that terrified the universe
It was perplexed and shaken by it

9. Whenever he taught knowledge and enlightened
And the needy called him he reached what was sought

10. And likewise when he penned epistles in a gathering
He let loose the reins and the sweetest draught

11. And the scholars hesitated on meanings and implications
A circlet of religious knowledge and refinement

12. And in place of them what their brief lives sold them
So who will solve the complex intractable dilemma?

13. And the waves of its sciences have carried them away
How to break free and attain propriety?

14. Should I not shed tears of regret for him
With blood as sequel to melting and sorrow?

15. For the excellence in him belonged to the origin
Of his noble nature, not something borrowed

16. Do not blame if his compositions donned
In grief treatises then homilies

17. And gatherings that his auspicious face lit up
Now truly avoid him

18. And assemblies for seekers of science most benevolent gatherings for science and requests
By my father may you live long, O noble one

19. You were concealed between shrouds and soil
It was not imagined that the sea could

20. Be contained in a pot, what a marvel!
No, neither in fancy nor sensed or rationally conceived

21. Did anyone ever imagine or reckon that
I am like describing his attributes so we say then

22. Measure him by one past or one eminent
That perfection, its traits are perfect

23. In its perfection, and it is most select
The scholar perspicacious, the fathomless ocean

24. Teeming with waves and most eloquent
The outstanding among scholars and meritorious

25. In depicting an issue, reciting or writing
The devout worshipper, bestower and desirer

26. Of granting wishes and drawing near
Of keen intellect whatever knotty problem he probed

27. It invariably yielded to him however stubborn
The world never showed any delight

28. Or joy to a person except he was the cause
Our sheikh in every science we are

29. Your bereft students in grief and in pain
Lost today, weeping and complaining

30. For the usurpation of your person
And for loss of your years what an affliction

31. Beyond which all afflictions are defective
Profound the calamity, so much so that we

32. Find life without your face undesirable
That we weep for you is obligatory

33. And for other than you undeservedly supererogatory
You are the most cherished of souls among us so never

34. Did they yearn like you, O Sibawayh of your time
It has been related in some narration that

35. In bygone eras, as told of yore
They weighed the blood of martyrs against the ink

36. Of scholars' pens, and the ink outweighed when balanced
This by way of showing superiority not majority

37. And exaggeration in ranks
To God belongs what He gave and originated His making

38. In what He willed, and what He destroyed and bestowed
His decree and command cannot be overcome

39. Or opposed, and to Him belong might and dominance
Praise be to God who decreed death among us

40. Inevitably upon non-Arabs and Arabs alike
And it befell him by destiny until

41. All of creation in the ordained are sons of one father
And in Ahmad the Chosen one there is an example

42. So the free are those who in him found solace and acceptance
O Lord a servant has called on You hopefully

43. So treat him well in Your presence when he turns to You
And bestow prayers and blessings upon the Prophet

44. And be pleased with the generous, kindred and companions